GRADE 11 STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

Preliminary Examination

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Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write in on the left side of the numbers in CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY
and NO ERASURE.

1. Why the Discrete Probability Distribution must be satisfied its properties?

a. Because a discrete random variable is countable and the probability must be equal to one, and therefore it must be
probability distributed.
b. Because a discrete random variable is countable regardless of what is the sum of its probability as well as it is
probability distributed.
c. Because a discrete random variable is a continuous and must be equal to one, and can be probability distributed
or not.
d. None of the above.
2. The Expected Value is denoted by__________.
a. ∑[𝑥𝑃(𝑥)] b. 𝐸(𝑋) c. 𝜇 d. All of the choices
3. What do you call to a graphical representation of a discrete random variable?
a. Probability Bar Graph c. Probability Line Graph
b. Discrete Histogram d. Probability Histogram
4. Find the expected value of the following probability distribution.
x 0 1 2 3 4 5
P(x) 0.123 0.134 0.221 0.321 0.140 0.071
a. 7.922 b. 2.454 c. 0.528 d. 1.580
5. A researcher is conducting research about the perception in Statistics and Probability subject of Senior High School
student in a school in Taguig City. He selected his sample by identifying the overall sample size through Slovin’s formula
and he get the sample size of each strand by dividing the total population of each strand by the total number of senior
high school student in a school and multiply to the overall sample size. After this process, he selected the specific
student of each strand by using random number table. What are the techniques used by James in this situation?
a. Simple Random Sampling, Stratified Random Sampling
b. Simple Random Sampling, Systematic Random Sampling, Stratified Random Sampling
c. Systematic Random Sampling, Stratified Random Sampling, Cluster Sampling
d. Simple Random Sampling, Cluster Sampling
For Item 6-7. Jose tosses an unbiased coin. If the coin lands with head up on each toss, he wins ₱30. However, if it lands
with tail up, he loses ₱20. If he continues to play the game,
6. What is the probability of winning ₱30?
1
a. 0.25 b. 0.50 c. 0.75 d. 4
7. How much can he expect to win or lose in the game?
a. 5 b. 10 c. 15 d. 20
For Items 8-10. A foundation wants to conduct a lottery for the benefit of the chosen charity. Five hundred fifty tickets will
be sold. One ticket will win ₱9,000 price and the other tickets will win nothing. If you will buy one ticket,
8. What is the probability of winning ₱9,000?
1 499
a. 0.998 b. 0.5 c. 550 d. 550
9. What is the expected gain of the lottery?
a. 15.36 b. 16.36 c. 17 d. 17.34
10. What is the variance of the lottery?
a. 147,005.08 b. 147,256.37 c. 162,000 d. 160,000.08
11. The Statistic is __________.
a. A measure that describes population c. Both A and B
b. A measure that describes sample d. None of the choices
12. What do you call to the weighted average of the elements x in the Support S where each element is weighted by its
respective probability?
a. Expected Value c. Standard Deviation
b. Variance d. None of the choices
13. Which of the following is the example of Systematic Sampling?
a. A researcher randomly selected the participants for his research by using random number table.
b. A researcher selected the participants based on the acquired sampling interval k.
c. A researcher randomly selected the respondents for his research by clustering his population.
d. A researcher selected the participants based on his stratified population.
14. It is the value that indicates how many standard deviations a datum is above or below the population/sample mean.
a. Population Mean c. Sample Variance
b. Standard Score d. Standard Error
For Items 15-16. You play a game with two six-sided dice. If you roll a sum of 5 or 10, you win ₱500. If you roll a sum of
11, you win ₱400. However, you lose ₱300 for anything else. If you continue to play the game,
15. What is the probability of winning ₱400?
3 4 2 1
a. 36 b. 36 c. 36 d. 12
16. How much do you expect to win or lose in the game?
a. 93.4 b. -92.5 c. 105.56 d. -105.56
17. Find the expected value of the following probability distribution.
x 0 1 2 3 4 5
P(x) 0.26 0.11 0.25 0.13 0.15 0.10
a. 2.0 b. 2.1 c. 4.3 d. 4.4
18. The standard error is ______________.
a. The standard deviation of sampling distribution of means
b. The standard deviation of discrete random variable
c. The standard deviation of the population
d. The standard deviation of the sample
19. The Central Limit Theorem says that _______________.
a. If the sample of size 𝑛 is sufficiently large, are drawn from any population with a mean 𝜇 and a standard deviation
𝜎, then the sampling distribution of sample means approximates a normal distribution.
b. The sampling distribution of the sample means taken with replacement from a population 𝑁 with the population
mean 𝜇 and variance 𝜎 2 will approach a normal distribution.
c. As the sample size increases, the sampling distribution of the mean approaches a normal distribution.
d. All of the above
20. Which of the following is the formula for z-value of a normal distribution?
𝑥−𝜇 𝜇−𝑥
a. 𝑧 = 𝜎 c. 𝑧 = 𝜎
𝑥̅ −𝜇𝑥
̅ 𝜇𝑥
̅ −𝑥̅
b. 𝑍 = 𝜎 d. 𝑍 = 𝜎
√𝑛 √𝑛
For Items 21-23. Richard and his friends are in a carnival and they see a game. The rule says that the outcome in the game
is a random variable from 1 to 14 and that if the outcome is even, you win ₱50. If the outcome is odd, you win nothing. If
you play the game, what is the expected gain if there is any?
21. What is the probability that the outcome is even?
1 1
a. 0.998 b. 0.5 c. 14 d. 7
22. If you play the game, what is the expected gain if there is any?
a. 15 b. 20 c. 25 d. 30
23. What is the variance of the gain?
a. 610 b. 615 c. 620 d. 625
24. Which of the following graph represents the area below 𝑧 = 1.25?

a. c.

b. d.
For Items 25-27. Ana is a vendor selling her pancakes. She wants to know the average pancakes sold for the month of
April. She randomly selects 5 days for the month of April that she sells the pancakes. On the first day, she sells 50 pancakes,
the second day is 60 pancakes, the third is 30 pancakes, the fourth is 45, and the fifth day is 35. The variance is known to
be 25.
25. What is the sample mean of the problem?
a. 43 b. 44 c. 45 d. 46
26. What is the 95% confidence level interval estimate for the average pancakes sold for the month of April (with rounding
off in 2 decimal places in solution)?
a. 39.61 < 𝜇 < 48.39 c. 40.32 < 𝜇 < 47.68
b. 38.23 < 𝜇 < 49.77 d. 37.68 < 𝜇 < 50.56
27. What is the conclusion of Ana based on the answer in Item 26?
a. Ana is 95% confident that the average pancakes sold for the month of April is estimated between 39.61 and 48.39
pancakes.
b. Ana is 95% confident that the average pancakes sold for the month of April is estimated between 38.23 and 49.77
pancakes.
c. Ana is 95% confident that the average pancakes sold for the month of April is estimated between 40.32 and 47.68
pancakes.
d. Ana is 95% confident that the average pancakes sold for the month of April is estimated between 37.68 and 50.56
pancakes.
For Items 28-30. Consider the normal distribution below.

28. What is the raw score of 𝑧 = 2.4?

a. 35 b. 45 c. 53 d. 69
29. What is the probability that the raw scores are in between 35 and 69?
a. 34.13% b. 62.94% c. 83.31% d. 84.13%
30. What is the sum of the probability of 𝐴2 and 𝐴4 ?
a. 16.69% b. 54.50% c. 83.31% d. 84.13%